RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist?
January 26, 2013 at 6:22 pm
(This post was last modified: January 26, 2013 at 6:28 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
(January 25, 2013 at 1:07 pm)TaraJo Wrote: I've never really understood why life has to have a meaning.
Me, I just go out, enjoy life, try to make the world a little better and die a happy old lady. The rest is just details. Does that give life meaning? I don't care.
That sounds like a really cool experience of life.
In my experience the mere connotation of the word "meaningless" or the idea of there being no "meaning" makes me feel bad because I'm "greedy" and I want more than that. Also, I am suspicious of the idea that subjective meaning is separate to the universe and therefore I believe that meaning does actually exist since subjective meaning exists.
So, the way I interpret your post is that surely that, going out, enjoying life, trying to make the world a little better and dying happy is meaningful enough. That feels slightly better in my experience despite the fact that I am perfectly aware that I am merely interpreting things in such a way that I experience the placebo effect positively, merely by "labeling" things as "meaningful" for reinforcing the existence of my positive subjective experience that exists objectively in this existent world as a part or parts of or an aspect of or aspects of the imaginary objectively existent object of the subject of my imagination. This is only a contradiction if you equivocate different senses of the meaning of the word "objective of course. There is epistemological objectivity and ontological objectivity.
In my experience this is all pragmatically rational positive thinking for the purpose of subjectively experiencing the feeling of meaningfully happy living